2 757's & 1 777 from in two hours from 10:30 to 12:35, Continental needs something between noon and the 6:30 PM departure. The 757's, so many, too many, two of the four 757 flights should be different planes.

Oh not again with the flagship route and using the biggest aircraft on the route, they already use 3 772's to LHR!! Now would you like CO to take there 772's of the TLV route's or perhaps the Asian routes, just to have all 772's?

LHR slots are too valuable to be wasted on 757s. CO should short-term lease more 777s (or even 767s, if u don't have that much demand) until their perm orders get delivered, and reserve the lie-flat 757s for smaller European markets or flagship transcons to LAX and SFO ?

Quoting EwRkId (Reply 8):Oh not again with the flagship route and using the biggest aircraft on the route, they already use 3 772's to LHR!! Now would you like CO to take there 772's of the TLV route's or perhaps the Asian routes, just to have all 772's?

Quoting Jfk777 (Reply 6):The 757's, so many, too many, two of the four 757 flights should be different planes.

Most wonderfully, Continental isn't Delta - the airline actually endeavors to offer a schedule it can sustain for some time. The 757 is the perfect aircraft to build up frequencies as it has comparatively lower overall costs. Also, virtually all amenities offered on other longhaul a/c types can be offered on the 757, including flat bed seats in BF.

Says who? For starters, CO's 757-200s hold about as many people as its smallest widebody (762). Also, the 757 is allowing CO to do something that's a win for both the airline and the marketplace -- become a serious contender in the NYC-LON market that can offer a credible alternative to the looming AA/BA immmunized behemoth.

Excellent news, 5 daily EWR-LHR is where CO needed to be as the NYC market leader. The 757-200s will have lie flat Businessfirst seats, plus in 2011 CO is taking delivery of six 787-8s which could find their way to LHR.

This frequency increase along with the recently announced Shannon and Oslo frequency increases are nice signs going forward.

Profit rules. 2 flights 40 minutes apart is clearly overkill and will make very little difference to RASM - heck the Vc of the 757 will diminish any benefits further, but if there's nothing available to reduce CASM by combinding them then there's no gain.

Quoting RJ111 (Reply 17): flights 40 minutes apart is clearly overkill and will make very little difference to RASM

I think CO would disagree, as would BA, which offers 3 JFK-LHR departures within a narrow timeframe (19:20, 20:01, 20:40), and with widebodies to boot. The closely-spaced flights are useful in terms of presenting more options to the customer, such as by optimizing the network for connections on both ends, and allowing added flexibility in inventory management practices.

I am not thrilled with the 757s either, but Kudos to CO and to DL for the strides they have made in this market.

Remember, up until recently, this market was owned by VS, BA, AA, and UA.

UA is gone, and the three remaining are somewhat smaller . . . AA has no EWR service, their JFK service is less than it has been in years thanks to the RDU slot allocation; BA is down to mostly 777s out of JFK; VS cancelled the am flight to JFK.

There is spot for DL and CO and they are making in-roads. Start with 757s and up them as the market matures.

I'll throw this out:

You are upset at CO using 757s and wasting LHR slots

But how about BA (via OpenSkies) using a low density 757 to JFK and wasting valuable JFK slots?????

I *am* thrilled about the 757s - CO has decked them out quite nicely, and as they are receiving flat bed BF seats before the 767s, they offer/will offer a superior product in both cabins compared to the 767s for some time to come.

The B757 is not claustrophobic. There is nothing wrong with flying the B757 across the atlantic. When flying to MAD on CO, I chose the B757 over the B777 because of time,convenience and aircraft comfort. The aircraft has a superb AVOD and the cabin looks really nice. It is like flying the B777 without the 3 middle seats...

25 Alitalia744
: Not sure what the issue is. CO is fishing where the fish are and in this instance they want to eat more. Creating a schedule that makes sense operatio

26 Incitatus
: It will be interesting to see what DL does with JFK-LHR, or better, how much money they are willing to burn in it. The five frequencies CO plans to ha

27 RJ111
: BA only offer that because they want to maintain the roughly 2 hour intervals on the LHR-JFK leg (something that CO fail to do themselves with sporad

28 STT757
: I find most folks complaining about 757s on trans-Atlantic routes have in most cases never actually experienced it first hand. I've flown EWR-BCN-EWR

29 Cba
: Enough of the 757 bashing transatlantic... a few key points: 1. The 757s have a nicer on board product with AVOD and the lie-flat Business First Seat